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Let us have faith that right maizes might 



JANUARY 

The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the 
stormy present. 



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LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 

JANUARY 
FIRST 



Always do the very best you can. 
SECOND 

If our sense of duty forbids, then let us 
stand by our sense of duty. 
THIRD 

It 's no use to- be always looking up 
these hard spots. 

FOURTH 

All I am in the world, I owe to the 
opinion of me which the people express 
when they call me " Honest Old Abe." 
F I F T H 

The way for a young man to rise is to 
improve himself in every way he can, 
never suspecting that anybody is hin- 
dering him. 






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JANUARY 



SIX T H 





No one has needed favors more than I. 
SEVENTH 

Whatever is calculated to improve the 
condition of the honest, struggling labor- 
ing man, I am for that thing. 

EIGHTH 

All we want is time and patience. 

N I N T H 

I esteem foreigners as no better than 
other people — nor any worse. 

TEN T H 



My experience and observation have 
"■ - been that those who promise the most do 
the least. 



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JANUARY 

E LE YEN T H 

I did n't know anything about it, but 
[ thought you knew your own business 
best. 

TWE LF T H 

If I send a man to buy a horse for me, 
I expect him to tell me his points — not 
how many hairs there are in his tail. 

T H I R TEEN T H 



You must act. 

FOUR TEEN T H 

I will try, and do the best 1 can. 

F I F TEEN TH 

His attitude is such that, in the very 
selfishness of his nature, he can not but 
work to be successful ! 






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JANUARY 

SIXTEEN TH 

Afford all an unfettered start and a fair 
chance in tiie race of life. 

S E YEN TEEN TH 



I want Christians to pray for me ; I 
need their prayers. 



EI GH TEEN TH 



The young men must not be permitted 
to drift away. 




NINE TEEN TH 



The free institutions we enjoy have 
developed the powers and improved the 
condition of the whole people beyond any 
example in the world. 



TWEN TI E TH 




I shall do nothing in malice. 



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JANUARY 

TWE NT Y- FIRS T 

Good men do not agree. 

TWE N TY - SECOND 

I shall, to the best of my ability, repel 
force by force. 

TWE N TY-THIRD 

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful 
successors of bullets. 

■ TWE N TY-FOURTH 




I never thought he had more than 
average ability when we were young men 
together. But, then, I suppose he thought 
just the same about me. 

TWEN TY-FIF T H 

Moral cowardice is something which I 
think 1 never had. 





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JANUARY 

TWEN TY- SIXTH 

The patriotic instinct of plain people. 

TWEN TY-SE/ENTH 

The face of an old friend is like a ray 
of sunshine through dark and gloomy 
clouds. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 



Will anybody do your work for you ? 
TWE N TY-NIN TH 




My rightful masters, the American 
people. 

TH I R TIE TH 



Should any one in any case be con- 
tent that his oath shall go unkept on a 
merely unsubstantial controversy as to 
how it shall be kept ? 

TH I R TY - FIRST 




The value of life is to improve one's 
condition. 



FEBRUARY 

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we 
may succeed. 



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FEBRUARY 



FIRS T 



Labor is like any otiier commodity in 
the market — increase the demand for it 
and you increase the price of it. 

SECOND 

When I hear a man preach, I like to 
see him act as if he were fighting bees. 

THIRD 



I say "try," for if we never try, we 
never succeed. 

FOURTH 

The pioneer in any movement is not 
generally the best man to bring that 
movement to a successful issue. 

F I F TH 



Defeat and failure make everything -r^ 
seem wrong. 






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FEBRUARY 




SIXTH 




This nation cannot live on injustice. 
S E VENTH 

Sometliing had to be done, and, as 
there does not appear to be any one 
else to do it, I did it. 

EIGHTH 

Poor parsons seem always to have 
large families. 

NINTH 

If it be true that the Lord has appointed 
me to do the work you have indicated, is 
it not probable that he would have com- 
municated Icnowledge of the fact to me as 
well as to you? 

TENTH 

I trust I shall be willing to do my duty, 
though it costs my life. 



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FEBRUARY 



ELEVENTH 

I hope peace will come soon, and 
come to stay ; and so come as to be 
worth the keeping in all future time. 

TWE LF T H 

What there is of me is self-made. 
T H I R T E E N T H 

I was young once, and 1 am sure I was 
never ungenerously thrust back. 

F O U R TEEN T H 

Thank God for not making me a 
woman, but if He had, I suppose He 
would have made mie just as ugly as He 
did, and no one would ever have tempted 
me. 

F I F TEEN T H 

You may say anything you like about 
me, — if that will help. 






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FEBRUARY 



SIXTEENTH 

No men living are more worthy to be 
trusted than those who toil up from pov- 
erty — none less inclined to take, or 
touch, aught which they have not hon- 
estly earned. 

S E VENTEENTH 

As our case is new, so we must think 
anew. 

EIGHTEENTH 

I shall do less whenever I believe 
what I am doing hurts the cause ; and I 
shall do more whenever I believe doing 
more helps the cause. 

NINE T E E N T H 

No personal significance, or insignifi- 
cance, can spare one or another of us. 

TWE NT I E T H 
If 1 can learn God's will, I will do it. 



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FEBRUARY 

TWEN TY-FIRST 

It is the nature of the case, and no one 
is to blame. 

TWEN T Y - SECOND 

Tell the whole truth. 

TWE N TY- THIRD 

He sticks through thick and thin, — I 
admire such a man. 

TWE NT Y- F O U R T H 

If by the mere force of numbers a 
majority should deprive a minority of any 
constitutional right, it might in a moral 
point of view justify revolution, — cer- 
tainly would if such right were a vital 
one. 

TWEN TY-FIF T H 



My hand was tired ; but my resolution 
was firm. 







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FEBRUARY 

TWE N TY-SIXTH 

It is a difficult role, and so much the 
greater will be the honor if you perform 
it well. 

TWENTY-SE V E NTH 



I shall write my papers myself. The 
people will understand them. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 




Though much provoked, let us do 
nothing through passion and ill-temper. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



Have confidence in yourself, a valu- 
able if not indispensable quality. 



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MARCH 

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it 
not for themselves; and, under a just God, can 
not long retain it. 



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MARCH 



FIRST 



Twenty thousand is as much as any 
man ought to want. 



SECOND 



By general law, life and limb must be 
protected; yet often a limb must be am- 
putated to save a life ; but a life is never 
given merely to save a limb. 



THIRD 



Trust to the good sense of the Ameri- 
can people. 



FO u R T H 



Let us judge not, that we be not 
judged. 



F I F T H 



Put the foot down firmly. 






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MARCH 




SIXTH 



The occasion is piled liigh with diffi- 
culty, and we must rise to the occasion. 

S E V EN T H 
I bring a heart true to the work. 

EIGHTH 

The people will save their government, 
if the government itself will do its part 
only indifferently well. 

N I N T H 

Most certainly I intend no injustice to 
any one, and if I have done any I deeply 
regret it. 

TENTH 

With firmness in the right, as God 
gives us to see the right. 




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MARCH 



ELE YEN TH 



Action in tlie crisis of a nation must 
accord witii its necessities, and therefore 
can seldom be confined to precedent. 

TWELF TH 



You can't put a long sword in a short 
scabbard. 

T H I R TEEN T H 




"I have made it a rule of my life," f^J- 
said the old parson, "not to cross Fox Y\.^ ) 
River until 1 get to it." ^ ^' 

FOUR TE E NTH 



It is sometimes well to be humble. 

F I F TEEN T H 



Don't let joy carry you into excesses. 




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MARCH 



SIXTEENTH 




Liberty is your birthright. 

S E YEN T E E NT H 

If the minority will not acquiesce, the 
majority must, or government will cease. 

E I G H TEEN T H 

Learn the laws and obey them. 

NINE T E E N T H 

It is easy to. conceive that all these 
shades of opinion, and even more, may 
be sincerely entertained by honest and 
truthful men. 

TWE N TIE T H 

It is better only sometimes to be right 
than at all times wrong. 




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MARCH 

TV/EN T Y- FIRS T 

When you have an elephant on hand, 
and he wants to run away, better let him 
run. 

TWE NTY- SECOND 

Whatever God designs, He will do for 
me yet. 

/ TWE N TY-THIRD 



Quarrel not at all. 

TWE N TY-FOURTH 

Let no opportunity of making a mark 
escape. 

TWE N T Y- F I F T H 

I want in all cases to do right; and 
most particularly so in all cases with 
women. 

TWE NT Y- SIX T H 

I should rejoice to be spared the labor 
of a contest, but being in I shall go it 
thoroughly. 






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MARCH 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 
I intend discourtesy to no one. 
TWENTY- EI G H TH 

Tlie doctrine of self-government is 
riglit — absolutely and eternally right. 

TWENTY-NINTH 






This government is expressly charged 
with the duty of providing for the general 
welfare. 

T H I R TIE TH 



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We are not bound to follow implicitly 
r in whatever our fathers did. To do so 
would be to reject all progress, all im- 
provement. 

T H I R TY - FIRST 



Understanding the spirit of our institu- 
tions to aim at the elevation of men, 1 am 
opposed to whatever tends to degrade 
them. 




APRIL 

The probability that we may fail in the struggle 
ought not to deter us from the support of a cause 
which we deem to be just. 



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APRIL 



FIRST 



You can fool some of the people all of 
the time, or all of the people some of the 
time ; but you can't fool all of the people 
all of the time. 



SECOND 



He has abundant talents — quite 
enough to occupy all his time without 
devoting any to temper. 



THIRD 



I do not argue — I beseech you to make 
the argument for yourself. 

FOURTH 

Must a government, of necessity, be 
too strong for the liberties of Its own 
people, or too weak to maintain its own 
existence? 






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APRIL 





FIFTH 



Lift artificial weights from all shoulders. 
SIXTH 

The purposes of the Lord are perfect 
and must prevail. 

SE VENTH 

Some people say they could not take 
very well to my proclamation, but now 
that I have the varioloid, I am happy to 
say I have something that everybody can 
take. 

EIGHTH 

Honest statesmanship is the employ- 
ment of individual meannesses for the 
public good. 

NINTH 
Obey God's commandments. 




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APRIL 



TENTH 



Men are not flattered by being shown 
that there has been a difference of pur- 
pose between the Almighty and them. 

E LE V E NT H 

Important principles may and must be 
inflexible. 

TWELF T H 

There is but one duty now — to fight. 
T H I R TEEN T H 

A majority held in restraint by consti- 
tutional checks and limitations, and always 
changing easily with deliberate changes 
of popular opinions and sentiments, is 
the only true sovereign of a free people. 

FOUR T E E NT H 

This, too, shall pass away : never fear. 
FI F T E ENTH 

I am not afraid to die. 





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APRIL 




SIX T E E NT H 



I have said nothing but what I am will- 
ing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure 
of Almighty God, to die by. 

S E YEN T E E NT H 

Let us strive on to finish the work we 
are in. 

EI G H TEEN T H 

Give us a little more light, and a little 
less noise. 

NINE T E E NT H 

The wild lands of the country should 
be distributed so that every man should 
have the means and opportunity of bene- 
fiting his condition. 

TWE N TIE T H 

I shall try to correct errors, when 
shown to be errors; and I shall adopt 
new views, so fast as they shall appear 
to be true views. 




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APRIL 



TWE N TY - F I R ST 



There is nothing like getting used to 
things. 

TWE N TY - SECOND 

When the white man governs himself, 
that Is self-government; but when he ^' 
governs himself and also governs another 
man, that is more than self-government 
— that is despotism. 

TWE N TY- THIRD 




If they kill me, the next will be just as 
bad for them. 

TWE N TY- F O U RT H 



With Shakespeare the thought suffices. 

TWE N TY- F I F T H 

As to the crazy folks — why, 1 must 
take my chances. 




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APRIL 



TWENTY- SIXTH 




I think it more rare, if not more wise, 
for a public man to abstain from much 
speaking. 

TWENTY- S E VENTH 

At any rate, I will keep my part of the 
bargain. 

TWENTY- E I G H TH 

|/ The Lord prefers common-looking 
" people. That is why he made so many 
of them. 

TWE NTY-N I NT H 

When the time comes, I shall take the 
ground I think is right. 

THIRTIETH 

Let the thing be pressed. 




MAY 

Two principles have stood face to face from the 
beginning- of time and will ever continue to strug- 
gle. The one is the common right of humanity ; 
the other is the divine right of kings. 



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MAY 



FIRST 



Revolutionize through the ballot box. 



SECOND 



Repeal all past history, 
not repeal human nature. 



you still can 



THIRD 



Capital has its rights, which are as 
worthy of protection as other rights. 



F O U R T H 




/ Teach men that what they can not ; 
take by an election, neither can they take 



by war. 



F I F TH 



I authorize no bargains, and will be 
bound by none. 





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MAY 




SIX T H 



When a man is sincerely penitent for 
liis misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evi- 
dence of the same, he can safely be 
pardoned. 

5 E VE NTH 

If destruction be our lot, it must spring 
up among ourselves. 

EIGHTH 

In a democracy, where the majority 
rule by the ballot through the forms of 
law, physical rebellions are radically 
wrong, unconstitutional, and are treason. 

N I N T H 

Let us be friends, and treat each other 
like friends. 

TENTH 

If I was less thin-skinned I should get 
along much better. 




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MAY 



ELEVEN T H 



We will talk over the merits of the 
case. 

TWE LF TH 



Nothing shall be wanting on my part, 
if sustained by the American people and 
God. 

T H I R TEEN TH 

Are you not over-cautious ? 
FOUR TEEN TH 

The severest justice may not always be 
the best policy. 

F I F TEEN TH 



The rule of a minority, as a permanent 
arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. 





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MAY 




SIXTEENTH 



One poor man, colored though he be, 
with God on his side, is stronger against 
us than the hosts of the Rebellion. 

S E VENTEENTH 

Never fear, victory will come. 
E I G H TEEN T H 

The Lord has not deserted me thus 
far, and He is not going to now. 

NINE T EENT H 



I remember my mother's prayers and 
they have always followed me. They 
have clung to me all my life. 



TWE N TIE TH 



Are you strong enough ? 




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MAY 



TWEN TY-FIRST 



If I do not go away from here a wiser 
man, I shall go away a better man. 

TWEN T Y - SECOND 

I know that liberty is right. 

TWEN TY-THIRD 

You must not give me the praise — it 
belongs to God. 

TWENTY- FOURTH 

It has always been a sentiment with 
me that all mankind should be free. 

TWEN T Y- F I F T H 

I don't pretend to be bright. 
TWEN TY-SIXTH 

It is only by the active development of 
events that character and ability can be 
tested. 






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MAY 



TWENTY-SE VENT H 



I remember a good story when I hear 
it , but I never invented anything original : 
I am only a retail dealer. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 



Few men are tried, or so many would 
not fit their places so badly. 

TWENTY-NINTH 




Preach God and liberty to the "bulls" 
and "bears." 

THIRTIETH 




The Union is older than any of the 
States. 

T H I R TY - FIRST 



1 only beg that you will not ask impos- 
sibilities of me. 




JUNE 

It is rather for us to he here dedicated to the 
great task remaining before us, — that from these 
honored dead we take increased devotion to the 
cause for which they gave the last full measure of 
devotion, — that we here highly resolve that the 
dead shall not have died in vain. 



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JUNE 



FIRST 



Let the people know the truth, and the 
country is safe. 



SECOND 



Men moving in an official circle are 
apt to become merely official — not to 
say arbitrary. 



THIRD 

Negroes, like other people, act upon 
motives. Why should they do anything 
for us if we will do nothing for them } 

FOURTH 

The Lord is always on the side of the 
right. 

F I F T H 



If I go down, I intend to go down like 
the "Cumberland," with my colors fly- ^ 
ing. 






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JUNE 



SIXTH 



Killing the dog does not cure the bite. 




s E V EN T H 
I am nothing, but truth is everything. 

EIGHTH 

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and 
could never have existed if labor had not 
first existed. 

NINTH 

Whatever shall appear to be God's 
will, I v/ill do. 

TENTH 



Only those generals who gain success 
can be dictators. 




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JUNE 



ELEVEN T H 



Can aliens make treaties easier than 
friends can make laws ? 

TV/ELF T H 



The Patagonians open oysters and 
throw the shells out of the window — 
until the pile gets higher than the house ; 
then they move. 

T H I R TEEN T H 



The question of time can not and must 
not be ignored. 

FOUR TEEN T H 

We must be more cheerful In the fu- 
ture. 

F I F TEEN T H 



Come what will, I will keep my faith 
with friend and foe. 






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JUNE 




SIXTEEN T H 



Keep in your own sphere, and there 
will be no difficulty. 

SE VENTEENTH 

If we could first know where we are 
and whither we are tending, we could 
better judge what to do and how to do it. 

El G H T EENT H 

I am never easy, when I am handling 
a thought, until I have bounded it north, 
south, east, and west. 

NINE T E E NT H 

Others have been made fools of by the 
girls, but this can never be said of me; 
I made a fool of myself. 

TWENT I E T H 

It is not best to swap horses while 
crossing a stream. 




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JUNE 



TWE N TY- FIRS T 



I can only trust in God that I have 
made no mistake. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

It has been said of the world's history 
hitherto that "might makes right"; it is 
for us and for our times to reverse the 
maxim, and to show that right makes 
might. 

TWEN TY-TH I R D 

I shall stay right here and do my duty. 

TWEN TY- FO U R TH 

If we have no friends, we have no 
pleasure. 

TWEN TY-FIF T H 

I am older in years than I am in the 
tricks and trades of politicians. 






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JUNE 




TWE N TY- SIX T H 



Any people anywhere, being inclined 
and having the power, have the right to 
rise up and shake off the existing gov- 
ernment and form a new one that suits 
them better. 

TWE N TY- SEVENTH 

Our enemies want a squabble; and 
that they can have if we explain; and 
they can not have it if we don't. 

TWE N TY-EIGHTH 



If it must be that I go down, let me go 
down linked to truth. 

TWE N TY-N I NTH 

I am very little inclined on any occa- 
sion to say anything unless I hope to 
produce some good by it. 

THIRTIETH 

Let us forget errors. 




JULY 

Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a 
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to 
the proposition that all men are created equal. 



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JULY 



FIRST 



This country, with all its institutions, 
belongs to the people who inhabit It. 

SECOND 

What is the use of putting up the gap 
when the fence is down all around? 

THIRD 



We hold the power — and bear the re- 
sponsibility. 

FOURTH 

My countrymen, if you have been 
taught doctrines conflicting with the 
great landmarks of the Declaration of 
Independence; if you have listened to 
y suggestions which would take away from 
its grandeur and mutilate the fair sym- 
metry of Its proportions; if you have 
been Inclined to believe that all men are 
not created equal in those inalienable 
rights enumerated by our charter of lib- 
erty, let me entreat you to come back. 




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JULY 




F I F T H 



The Fourth of July has not quite 
dwindled away ; it is still a great day for 
firecrackers. 

SIX T H 

I have never had a feeling, politically, 
that did not spring from the sentiments 
embodied in the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

SEVENTH 

1 have more pegs than holes to put 
them in. 

EIGHTH 

The government must not undertake 
to run the churches. 

NINTH 

All seems well with us. 

TEN T H 

With public sentiment, nothing can 
fail ; without it, nothing can succeed. 




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JULY 



E L E YEN T H 



It is no child's play to save the princi- 
ples of Jefferson from total overthrow in 
this nation. 

TWE LF TH 



If the Ship of State should suffer v/reck 
now, it will never need another pilot. 



T H I R TEEN TH 



Let us see what we can do. 



FOUR TEEN T H 



I will try to go to God with my sorrows. 




F I F TEEN T H 




The wriggle to live, without toil, work, 
or labor, which 1 am not free from my- 
self. 





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JULY 




SIXTEENTH 



Persisting in a charge one does not 
know to be true is malicious slander. 

S E V E NTEE NTH 

Steer from point to point — no farther 
than you can see. 

EI G H TEENTH 

God bless the women of America! 

NINE TEENTH 

The churches, as such, must take care 
of themselves. 

TWENTI E TH 



There is no more dangerous or expen- 
<^ sive analysis than that which consists of 
trying a man. 




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JULY 



TWENTY- FIRST 



Answer with facts, not with arguments 
TWE N T Y - SECOND 

The nation is beginning a new life. 

TWE N T Y-T H I RD 

Better give your path to a dog than to 
be bitten by him in contesting for the 
right. 

TWENTY- FO U RTH 



Money being the object, the man hav- 
ing money would be the victim. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 



I have been driven many times to my 
Icnees by the overwhelming conviction 
that I had nowhere else to go. 






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JULY 




TWENTY- SIXTH 



Early impressions last longer. 

Stand with anybody who stands right, 
. . . and part with him when he goes 
wrong. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 
My advice is to keep cool. 

TWEN T Y-N I N T H 

If destruction be our lot, we must our- 
selves be its author and finisher. 

TH I R TIE T H 



I have done just as much as, and no 
more than, the public knows. 

THIRTY- FIRST 




Many free countries have lost their 
liberties and ours may lose hers; but, if 
she shall, be it my proudest boast, not 
that 1 was the last to desert, but that 1 
never deserted her. 



AUGUST 

I feel that I can not succeed without the Divine 
blessing, and on the Almighty Being I place my 
reliance for support. 



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AUGUST 



FIRST 



It is not "Can any of us imagine bet- 
ter?" but "Can we all do better?" 

SECOND 



Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, 
in the fundamental law of all national 
governments. 

THIRD 



Wanting to work is so rare a merit 
that it should be encouraged. 



FO U RT H 



We shall sooner have the fowl by 
hatching the egg than by smashing it. 

F I F T H 

Maintain the honor and integrity of 
the nation. 






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AUGUST 




SIX T H 



I look to the American people, and to 
that God who has never forsaken them. 

S E V E NTH 



Secure peace through victory. 

EIGHTH 

What is the influence of fashion but 
the influence that other people's actions 
have on our actions.^ 

NINTH 



Our government rests in public opinion. 

TENTH 

Posterity has done nothing for us; 
and, theorize on it as we may, practically 
we shall do very little for it unless we are 
made to think we are, at the same time, 
doing something for ourselves. 




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AUGUST 



E L E V E N T H 



I am glad to find a man who can go 
ahead without me. 

TWE LF T H 



If you would win a man to your cause, 
first convince him you are his sincere 
friend. 

T H I R T E E N T H 

Gold is good in its place; but living, 
brave, and patriotic men are better than 
gold. 

FOURTEENTH 

These are not the days of miracles, 
and I suppose 1 am not to expect a direct 
revelation. 

F I F TEEN T H 




Do not mix politics with your profes- . 




sion. 



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AUGUST 



SIXTEENTH 





The first reformer in any movement 
lias to meet with such a hard opposition, 
and gets so battered and bespattered, that 
afterward, when people find they have to 
accept his reform, they will accept it 
more easily from another man. 

S E V E NT EENT H 

Versatility is an injurious possession, 
since it can never be greatness. 

EI G H T EENT H 



A jury has too frequently at least one 
<^J member more ready to hang the panel 
', than to hang the traitor. 

NINE T EENT H 

It is a cheering thought throughout life, 
that something can be done to ameliorate 
the condition of those who have been 
subjected to the hard usages of the world. 



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AUGUST 



TWE N T I E T H 



With some the word liberty may mean 
for each man to do as he pleases with 
himself, and the product of his labor; 
while with others the same word may 
mean for some men to do as they please 
with other men, and the product of other 
men's labor. 

TWEN T Y- FIRS T 



Great distance in either time or space 
has wonderful power to lull and render 
quiescent the human mind. 

TWENTY- SECOND 



We are going through with our task. 
TWEN TY-TH I RD 

I do not impugn the motives of any 
one opposed to me. 

TWEN TY- F O U RTH 



Human nature will not change. 






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AUGUST 

TWEN TY- F I F TH 

Beware of rashness ! 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

It is difficult to make a man miserable 
while he feels he is worthy of himself. 

TWENTY- S E V ENTH 

All should have an equal chance. 

TWE N TY- EI G H TH 

I hope to be false to nothing you have 
been taught to expect of me. 

TWE N TY-N I N TH 



All honor to Jefferson ! 

THIRTIETH 

It is the man who does not want to 
express an opinion whose opinion I want. 

T H I R TY-FIRS T 




I hope I am a Christian. 



SEPTEMBER 

I feel that the time is coming when the sun shall 
shine, the rain fall, on no man who shall go forth 
to unrequited toil. 



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SEPTEMBER 



FIRST 

Labor is the superior of capital and 
deserves much the higher consideration. 

SECOND 

Come, let us reason together, like the 
honest fellows we are. 

THIRD 



There is no such thing as a free man 
being fixed for life in the condition of a 
hired laborer. 

FOURTH 

There is, and probably always will be, 
a relation between labor and capital pro- 
ducing mutual benefits. 

F I F T H 

Labor is prior to and independent of 
capital. 







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SEPTEMBER 

SIXTH 

This is a land where freedom of 
speech is gualranteed. 

S E V E NTH 

Workingmen are the basis of all gov- 
ernments. 

EIGHTH 

Why should there not be a patient 
confidence in the ultimate justice of the 
people? Is there any better or equal 
hope in the world ? 

NINTH 

The man does not live who is more 
devoted to peace than I. 

TEN T H 



How hard it is to leave one's country 
no better than if one had never lived in 
it! 




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SEPTEMBER 
E L E YEN T H 

Keep the jewel of liberty in the family 
of freedom. 

TWE LF TH 



Among freemen there can be no suc- 
cessful appeal from the ballot to the 
bullet. 

T H I R TEEN T H 



I have done all 1 could for the good of 
mankind. 

FOUR TEEN T H 



It is my constant anxiety and prayer 
that 1 and this nation should be on the 
Lord's side. 

F I F TEEN TH 




No man is good enough to govern U 
another man without that other's con-^'' 
sent. ^ 





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SEPTEMBER 

SIX TEEN TH 

What will the country say ? 

S E VENTEENTH 

Mediocrity is sure of detection. 

E I G H TEEN TH 

Washington was a happy man, because 
he was engaged in benefiting his race. 

NINE TEENTH 

When the conduct of men is designed 
to be influenced, persuasion — kind, un- 
assuming persuasion — should ever be 
adopted. 

TWEN T I E T H 

If all that has been said by orators and 
poets since the creation in praise of 
women were applied to the women of 
America, it would not do them full jus- 
tice for their conduct during the war. 




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SEPTEMBER 
TWENTY- FIRS T 

There is something ludicrous in prom- 
ises of good or threats of evil a great way 

off. 

TWE N T Y - SECOND 

Object whatsoever is possible, still the 
question recurs, "Can we do better?" 

TWENTY- THIRD 

I invoke the considerate judgment of 
mankind and the gracious favor of Al- 
mighty God. 

TWE N T Y - F O U R T H 

God is with us. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 

Intemperance is one of the greatest, if 
not the greatest, of all evils among man- 
kind. 






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SEPTEMBER 

TWE N TY-SIX T H 

When any church will inscribe over 
its altar, as its sole qualification for 
membership, the Saviour's condensed 
statement of both law and gospel, that 
church will I join with all my heart and 
soul. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Wise counsels may accelerate, or 
mistakes delay it, but the victory is sure 
to come. 

TWEN TY- EI GHTH \ 




The first necessity is of proving that 
popular government is not an absurdity. 

TWEN TY-N I NT H 

People seldom run unless there is 
something to run from. 

TH I R TIE TH 

Allow the people to do as they please 
with their own business. 




OCTOBER 

Great statesmen as they (the Fathers of the 
Republic) were, they knew the tendency of pros- 
perity to breed tyrants, and so they established 
these great self-evident truths, that when in the 
future some man, some faction, some interest, 
should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, 
none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon 
white men were entitled to life, liberty, and the 
pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up 
again to the Declaration of Independence and take 
courage to renew the battle which their fathers 
began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all 
the humane and Christian virtues might not be 
extinguished from the land; so that no man would 
hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great 
principles on which the temple of liberty was being 
built 



THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 



OCTOBER 



FIRS T 



Nothing stamped with the Divine image 
and likeness was sent into the world to 
be trodden on and degraded and im- 
bruted by its fellows. 

SECOND 

You must remember that some things 
legally right are not morally right. '^ 

THIRD 

Mercy bears richer rewards than strict 
justice. 

FO U RTH 

No human counsel hath devised nor 
hath any mortal hand worked out these 
great things. 

F I F TH 

It is not much in the nature of man to 
be driven to do anything. 





THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 




OCTOBER 



SIXTH 



All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to 
my mother. 

S E YE N T H 

The times are too grave and perilous 
for ambitious schemes and personal 
rivalries. 

EIGHTH 



^ ^ .^ 5 




Act as becomes a patriot. 
NINTH 

Suspicion and jealousy never did help 
any man in any situation. 

TENTH 



If danger ever reaches us, it must 
spring up amongst us. It cannot come 
from abroad. 

ELE V E NT H 
I can 't take pay for doing my duty. 




THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 



OCTOBER 



TWE L F T H 



I have not willingly planted a thorn in 
any man's bosom. 

T H I R T E E N T H 

We had better have a friend than an 
enemy. 

FOURTEENTH 

In giving freedom to the slave, we 
assure freedom to the free. 

F I F T E E N T H 

No man resolved to make the most of 
himself can spare time for personal con- 
tention. 

SIXTEENTH 

There is no grievance that is a fit sub- 
ject of redress by mob law. 

S E YEN T E E NT H 
Punishment has to follow sin. 





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OCTOBER 

EI G H T E E N T H 

Let us to the end dare to do our duty. 

NINE T E E N T H 

Few can be induced to labor exclu- 
sively for posterity, and none will do it 
enthusiastically. 

TWENT I E T H 

It is a quality of revolutions not to go 
by old lines or old laws, but to break up 
both and make new ones. 

TWENT Y - EI R ST 

Military glory — that attractive rainbow 
that rises in showers of blood. 

TWEN TY - SEC O N D 

Pleasures to be enjoyed, or pains to be 
endured, after we shall be dead and gone, 
are but little regarded. 




THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 



OCTOBER 

TWE N TY-T H I R D 

Allow all the governed an equal voice 
in the government ; that, and that alone, 
is self-government. 

TWE N TY-FOURTH 

The universal sense of mankind on 
any subject is an argument, or at least 
an influence, not easily overcome. 

TWE N TY- F I F T H 



Without guile and with pure purpose, 
let us renew our trust in God and go .O. 
forward without fear and with manly 
hearts. 

TWE N TY- SIXTH 

Unless among those deficient of intel- 
lect, every one you trade with makes ^ 
something. 






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TWENTY- S E V ENTH 



9 OCTOBER 

M 

m 
m 

;'-v||r^ Implore the compassion and forgive- 
te ness of the Almighty, that he may 
%j enlighten the nation to know and to do 
His will. 



TWE N TY - E I G H T H 

We should look beyond our noses. 

TWENTY-N I N TH 

Labor for all now living, as well as all 
hereafter to live. 

THIRTIETH 

I have acted upon my best convictions, 
without selfishness or malice. 

T H I R TY-FIRST 

Success does not so much depend 
upon external help as on self-reliance. 



NOVEMBER 

All are of the great family of men, and if there 
is one shackle upon any of them, if would be far 
better to lift the load. 



THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 



NOVEMBER 



FIRS T 



Men should utter nothing for which 
they would not be willingly responsible 
through time and in eternity. 



SECOND 



Never mind if you are a count ; you 
shall be treated with just as much con- 
sideration, for all that. 



THIRD 



If Almighty God gives a man a cow- 
ardly pair of legs, how can he help their 
running away with him ? 



FOURTH 

It is against my principles to contest a 
clear matter of right. 

F I F T H 

The strife of elections is but human 
nature applied to the facts of the case. 





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NOVEMBER 



SIXTH 




How nobly distinguished that people 
who shall have planted and nurtured 
y both the political and moral freedom of 
their species! 



SEVENTH 

If we succeed, there will be glory 
enough. 

EIGHTH 

Office seekers are a curse to the 
country. 



NINTH 



Justice to all. 



TENTH 



It must be somebody's business. 





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NOVEMBER 



E LE V E N T H 



Every man has a right to be equal to 
every other man. 



TWE L F T H 



N/' 



Happy day, when, all appetites con- 
trolled, all passions subdued, all matter 
subjugated, mind, conquering mind, shall 
live and move, the monarch of the world ! 

TH I R TEEN TH 

We will be remembered in spite of ^'' 
ourselves. '^ 



FOUR TEEN T H 

1 don't know anything about money. 1 
never had enough of my own to fret me. 

FI F TE ENT H 
Heal the wounds of the nation. 






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NOVEMBER 



SIXTEENTH 





I am not at liberty to shift my ground 
'M — that is out of the question. 



S E VE NTEEN TH 

For thirty years I have been a tem- 
perance man, and I am too old to change. 

EI G H TEENTH 

The heart is the great highroad to 
man's reason. 

NINE TEENTH 

Hope to all the world for all future 
time. 

TWEN TIE TH 



jTf \5J' ^^^ young men must not wait to be 
^ ^" hrniicfht fnrwiirH hv the. older men. 



brought forward by the older men. 



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NOVEMBER 

TWE N T Y- FIRS T 

Hold firm as a chain of steel. 
TWE N T Y - SECOND 

One war at a time. 

TWE N T Y - THIRD 

I did not break my sword, for I had 
none to break, but I bent my musket 
pretty badly. 

TWENTY - F O U R T H 

Meet face to face and converse to- 
gether — the best way to efface unpleas- 
ant feeling. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 

And now for a day of Thanksgiving ! 
TWENTY- SIX T H 

The influence of fashion is not confined 5 
to any particular thing or class of things. 






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NOVEMBER 

TWENT Y SB V E NT H 

Before I resolve to do the one thing or 
'A| the other, I must gain my confidence in 
/I my own ability to keep my resolves 
when they are made. 



TWENTY- EIGHTH 

Such of us as have never fallen vic- 
tims to intemperance have been spared 
more from the absence of appetite than 
from any mental or moral superiority 
over those who have. 

TWEN TY-N I N T H 




^^ Our political revolution of 1776 was 
the germ that has vegetated, and still is 
to grow into the universal liberty of man- 
kind. 



T H I R TIE T H 



By mutual concessions we should 
harmonize and act together. 




DECEMBER 
Teach hope to all — despair to none. 



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DECEMBER 



FIRST 



Rise up to the height of a generation 
of free men worthy of a free government. 

SECOND 

Let us be quite sober. 
THIRD 

We prefer a candidate who will allow 
the people to have their own way, regard- 
less of his private opinion. 

FOURTH 

The people's will is the ultimate law 
for all. 

F I F TH 

I shall do my utmost that whoever is 
to hold the helm for the next voyage 
shall start with the best possible chance 
of saving the ship. 







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DECEMBER 



SIX T H 





My gratitude is free from all sense of 
personal triumph. 

S E YEN TH 

How to do something, and not to do 
too much, is the desideratum. 

EIGHTH 

We mean to be as deliberate and calm 
as it is possible to be ; but as firm and 
resolved as it is possible for men to be. 

NINTH 

He that will fight to keep himself a 
slave, ought to be a slave. 

TENTH 

If the end brings me out wrong, ten 
angels swearing 1 was right would make 
no difference. 




THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 



DECEMBER 
E LE V E N T H 

Under all this seeming want of life and 
motion, the world does move neverthe- 
less. 

TWE L F T H 

I shall never be old enough to speak 
without embarrassment when 1 have 
nothing to talk about. 

T H I R TEEN T H 



It adds nothing to my satisfaction that 
another man shall be disappointed. C " 

F O U R TEEN T H 

Take your full time. 

F I F TEEN T H 

I surely will not blame them for not 
doing what I should not know how to do c^ 
myself. '^- 






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DECEMBER 

SIXTEENTH 

The man and the dollar, but, in case of 
conflict, the man before the dollar. 

SEVEN T E E N T H 

The strongest bond of human sympa- 
thy, outside of the family relation, should 
be one uniting all working people, of all 
nations, and tongues, and kindreds. 

E I G H T E E N T H 



We can see the past, though we may 
not claim to have directed it; and seeing 
— it, we feel more hopeful and confident for 
DC the future. 

NINE T E E N T H 

Squirming and crawling around can do 
no good. 

TWE NT I E T H 

I wish to see all men free. 




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DECEMBER 
TWENTY- FIRS T 

Let them laugh, so long as the thing 
works well. 

TWENTY- SECOND 



Let there be peace. 

TWE N TY - THIRD 

The age is not yet dead. 

TWE N TY- F O U RT H 

With malice toward none, with charity 
for all. 

TWE N TY- F I F T H 



Let us at all times remember that all 
American citizens are brothers of a 
common country. 

TWE N TY- S I X T H 
Be hopeful. 






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DECEMBER 

TWENTY- S E V E NTH 

Let not him who is homeless piill down 
the house of another. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 

The struggle for to-day is not altogether 
for to-day — it is for a vast future. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



We can not escape history. 
TH I R TIE T H 

We here highly resolve that the dead 
shall not have died in vain ; that the na- 
tion shall, under God, have a new birth 
of freedom ; and that the government of 
the people, by the people, and for the 
people shall not perish from the earth. 

T H I R TY-FIRS T 



Let us dare to do our duty as we un- 
derstand it. 




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